Huang, 164 patient exercise study: 47% lower severe cases [p=0.18] and 66% fewer cases [p=0.004] https://c19p.org/huang5
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Reduced Sleep in the Week Prior to Diagnosis of COVID-19 is Associated with the Severity of COVID-19
et al., Nature and Science of Sleep, doi:10.2147/NSS.S263488
Retrospective 164 COVID-19 patients and 188 controls in China, showing lower risk of cases with regular exercise.
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risk of severe case, 46.8% lower, RR 0.53, p = 0.18, high activity levels 7 of 74 (9.5%), low activity levels 16 of 90 (17.8%), NNT 12, unadjusted, exercise habit, ≥1 time per week, excluded in exclusion analyses:
unadjusted results with no group details.
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risk of severe case, 8.0% lower, RR 0.92, p = 1.00, high activity levels 3 of 23 (13.0%), low activity levels 20 of 141 (14.2%), NNT 88, unadjusted, ≥30 minutes ≥3 times per week, excluded in exclusion analyses:
unadjusted results with no group details.
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risk of case, 65.9% lower, OR 0.34, p = 0.004, adjusted per study, inverted to make OR<1 favor high activity levels, case control OR, regular exercise, multivariable.
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Huang et al., 30 Nov 2021, retrospective, China, peer-reviewed, survey, 5 authors, study period 10 February, 2020 - 28 March, 2020.
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